On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 14:11 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 07:54 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > > Restarting hal/dbus on package upgrade has worked very well so far, > > too. Our fine grained dependency system ensures that the matching > > libraries are available, and with the reconnection patch we can get an > > uninterrupted g-v-m session in all cases but HAL API changes (which > > does not occurr very often, so that's not a big deal). > > Which do you think your desktop users will be happier with? > > 1) Sometimes, perhaps rarely, after upgrades or security updates, some > things on the desktop mysteriously stop working or crash. They have > no idea what caused it or what they need to do to fix it. They might > eventually notice that rebooting seems to fix it. > 2) Their OS works reliably all of the time, but occasionally notifies > them that in order to gain new functionality from certain installed > software they should reboot at some point.
I vote for #2. Stability over any new features. A message saying a reboot is needed for _New_ functionality is OK. There's a difference between needing a reboot for the new function and a reboot because w/o it it won't be stable. (or hack/crackable) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 16:48:50 up 1 day, 20:36, 5 users, load average: 0.11, 0.33, 0.47 _______________________________________________ utopia-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/utopia-list
